Relativism and Bound Predicates of Personal Taste: An Answer to Schaffer's Argument from Binding

In this paper I put forward and substantiate a possible defensive move on behalf of the relativist about predicates of personal taste that can be used to block a recent contextualist argument raised against the view: the argument from binding' proposed in Schaffer (). The move consists in adopting Recanati's (; ) variadic functions apparatus and applying it to predicates of personal taste like tasty' and experiencer phrases like for John'. I substantiate the account in a basic relativistic framework and reply to several objections to the variadic-functions approach in general and to its application to the expressions at hand.